Contemporary History Of Cantonese Migrants In Yokohama Chinatown

Author : Yee Lam Elim Wong
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 9811599807
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Contemporary History of Cantonese Migrants in Yokohama Chinatown written by Yee Lam Elim Wong and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-01-11 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book vividly portrays the past, current, and future development of Yokohama Chinatown through the context of its Cantonese residents, grounded through a family history. It is useful for both academic and non- academic readers who are interested in migration history, transformation of urban spaces, anthropological perspectives of integration of immigrants, diasporic studies and overseas Chinese studies. It is informative when considering the role of immigrant communities in the world today in the context of globalization stimulating cross-border movements and anti-globalization forces that act as push and pull factors for migration. It is also a study of harmonious integration of the overseas Chinese community in Yokohama and its ability to retain its own cultural traits, rights, rituals, traditions and dialect language in one of the most homogenous countries in the world. This increases the attractiveness of Yokohama City in terms of ethnic diversity, cosmopolitan multiculturalism and urban space renewal.

Author : Philip A. Kuhn
Publisher : NUS Press
ISBN 13 : 9789971694142
Total Pages : 446 pages
Book Rating : 4.4X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Chinese Among Others written by Philip A. Kuhn and published by NUS Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Mette Thunø
Publisher : NIAS Press
ISBN 13 : 8776940004
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Beyond Chinatown written by Mette Thunø and published by NIAS Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: - A sweeping study of Chinese migration past and present - Highlights the growing pride in their roots among ex-pat Chinese - Of vital interest to migration scholars, but also to the Chinese diaspora and to anyone interested in the issues of migration today A bachelor society, men brought in by the shipload to labour in harsh, slave-like conditions, often for decades. Aliens despised and feared by their hosts. The hope: to return home as rich men. This was the exceptional and ambivalent nature of much of Chinese migration in the 19th and early 20th centuries--quite different in nature to the permanent migration of families and individuals from Europe to the New World at that same time. But stay, some Chinese did; rough camps and shantytowns became more settled Chinatowns across the globe. Slavery is not dead. Thousands still leave China for the industrialized world, their freedom and livelihoods in pawn to people smugglers. But China has changed, transformed by decades of economic liberalization and rapid economic growth. Most migrants--both women and men--now leave China for a more promising future and often find ways to bring their families with them. Chinese migration is no longer exceptional, yet distinct. Today, China matters--all around the world. Both its insatiable demand for raw materials and its flood of exported manufactures affect everyone; distant corners of the Third World that once had never heard of China now have a thriving Chinese presence. And, suddenly, third-generation Chinese who once could not wait to escape their Chinatown now proudly proclaim their ethnic Chinese identity. Because it opens a new approach to the study of recent Chinese migration, this volume will be of vital interest in the field of both general and Chinese migration studies. But, bringing to life as it does the momentous changes sweeping the Chinese world in all parts of the globe, it will also attract a far wider readership.

Author : Eric C. Han
Publisher : Harvard East Asian Monographs
ISBN 13 : 9780674244535
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rise of a Japanese Chinatown written by Eric C. Han and published by Harvard East Asian Monographs. This book was released on 2020-02-03 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rise of a Japanese Chinatown focuses on a Chinese immigrant community in the Japanese port city of Yokohama from the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895 to the normalization of Sino-Japanese ties in 1972 and beyond. It tells the story of how Chinese immigrants found an enduring place within a monoethnic state during periods of war and peace.

Author : Elizabeth Sinn
Publisher : Hong Kong University Press
ISBN 13 : 9622094465
Total Pages : 523 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Last Half Century of Chinese Overseas written by Elizabeth Sinn and published by Hong Kong University Press. This book was released on 1998-01-01 with total page 523 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The papers collected in this anthology look at Chinese overseas, residing in five continents in the half century after the Second World War, from many new perspectives. Some papers raise questions about the Chinese diaspora in broad conceptual terms, and inquire into the meaning of being Chinese outside China. Other papers examine life in local communities, analysing how historical and contemporary circumstances affect their lives and the ways they negotiate their identity in the host country. In-depth case studies further bring out the complexity of the subject by identifying the range of variables, including the social, economic, political and cultural characteristics of the places of origin and destinations, as well as emigration and immigration policies, which affect the patterns of migration and the nature of settlement in any place at any time. This is especially highlighted in chapters using a comparative approach. With scholars from different disciplines, using different types of data, methodologies and theoretical tools, the richness of the subject matter becomes apparent. This volume will no doubt go a long way both to broaden and deepen our understanding of the Chinese overseas, and, by showing the many possibilities for further investigation, to strengthen Chinese overseas as a field of study.

Author : Stanford M. Lyman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Chinatown and Little Tokyo written by Stanford M. Lyman and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Hsiang-Shui Chen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Chinatown No More written by Hsiang-Shui Chen and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By focusing on the social and cultural life of post-1965 Taiwan immigrants in Queens, New York, this book shifts Chinese American studies from ethnic enclaves to the diverse multiethnic neighborhoods of Flushing and Elmhurst. As Hsiang-shui Chen documents, the political dynamics of these settlements are entirely different from the traditional closed Chinese communities; the immigrants in Queens think of themselves as living in "worldtown," not in a second Chinatown. Drawing on interviews with members of a hundred households, Chen brings out telling aspects of demography, immigration experience, family life, and gender roles, and then turns to vivid, humanistic portraits of three families. Chen also describes the organizational life of the Chinese in Queens with a lively account of the power struggles and social interactions that occur within religious, sports, social service, and business groups and with the outside world.

Author : Lena Sze
Publisher : Damaris Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Chinatown Lives written by Lena Sze and published by Damaris Publishing. This book was released on 2004 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Consisting of twenty-two interviews with a diverse array of Chinatown residents and framed by three essays situating the interviews in a social and political context, this book focuses on residents' definitions of their own community and neighborhood in terms of people, events, and institutions.

Author : Qinghuang Yan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Studies in Modern Overseas Chinese History written by Qinghuang Yan and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Steven B. Miles
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107179920
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Chinese Diasporas written by Steven B. Miles and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-02-20 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A concise and compelling survey of Chinese migration in global history centered on Chinese migrants and their families.